by Jeanne Bourin · TABLE RONDE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782710300533
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«Le jeu de la tentation» is the historical novel by Jeanne Bourin, published in 1981 by La Table Ronde in paperback (445 pages, in French).
In medieval Paris of 1266, Marie Brunel, a young widow and manuscript illuminator, raises her two children and lives a passionate relationship with Côme Perrin, a master mercer. Three Lombard criminals threaten her family; through the eyes of her daughter Aude, the novel unfolds a game of temptations: money, lust, violence, and martyrdom.
It is the second installment of the series «La chambre des dames». It won the Prix Renaissance in 1982, and together with «La chambre des dames» it was adapted into a television series on TF1.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas set in 13th-century France.
Jeanne Bourin or Jeanne Mondot was a French writer known for her historical novels.
